Roasted Sweet Potatoes & Sausage

Okay all you white potato lovers or sweet-potato haters! Listen up and look at this here page! Here is a recipe that may very well change the way you view those red and orange globs we call sweet potatoes!
When my husband and I were dating, I was trying to cook different meals than I normally wouldn't make for myself that had more umph for his man-appetite.  I came across a recipe that called for russet potatoes and smoked sausage all roasted together and covered in the end with cheese. Well, that sad man-etite to me! I decided to swap out a couple of russets for a sweet potato I had on hand and Italian sausage for the smoked, with pretty good results.
As we sat eating it, I noticed that every bite I had with sweet potato in it was so much more scrumptious than the bite with russet.
"Hey", I told my soon-to-be-hubby, "What do you think about using ALL sweet potatoes next time?" His eyebrows raised significantly-a sign that he absolutely agreed with the statement-and said, "Heck yeah! Can't wait!"
A week or so later when we tried the further-altered recipe, we thought we'd died and gone to heaven. The. Stuff. Was. So. Good. Sooooooooooooo good. Oh my! The blend of sweet, tenderly raosted potato and succulent spicy italian sausage is one of the best things I have ever tasted. SERIOUSLY.

Look at that heavenly goodness!!

This has become our favorite dinner dish, and we make if at least once to twice a month. We've made it for dinners with my sisters family and our best friends, with very good responses. My sister texted me a day after we'd had our dinner asking for the recipe, saying, "I'm craving that heavenly goodness!"
Okay, enough with causing you to salivate-or maybe that's just happening to me, haha-here's the recipe, with all it's heavenly goodness :)

Sweet Potato Sausage Bake

Serves: 6
Ingredients
4-5 large sweet potatoes, cut into 1 inch chunks
4 Mild Italian Sausage links, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
Olive oil to coat
1 Tbsp dried minced onion
1 tsp Onion powder
Paprika
Salt
Shredded cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, combine sweet potato and sausage chunks and drizzle with a couple of Tbsp of olive oil. Add dried onion and powder and spices to taste and stir to coat. Grease a 9x13 glass baking dish and add the mixture. Bake uncovered for 45 to 60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes until the potatoes are tender, NOT mushy! Turn off the oven and cover the top of the potatoes and sausage with cheese to your liking.  Pop the dish back into the oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese. Take out, let sit for a few minutes to cool a bit, then dig in and enjoy! You won't be sorry you tried this baby out!

Cut the potatoes and sausage, drizzle with oil, sprinkle spices and mix with hands to coat

Place in baking dish and bake at 400 degrees for 45-60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes until tender and cooked through!